Comments on: Octopus Caused Flooding in California Aquarium

By: planettom

planettom — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 12:31:07 +0000

Which reminds me of a story I heard in college. Guy has a pet octopus. On the other side of the room, he has another tank with feeder fish in it. Each day he finds one of the fish gone. He scolds his roommate; “Stop feeding the octopus, she’s getting enough food already!” His bewildered roommate: “I’m not feeding the octopus!” Finally he discovers little wet sucker marks across the ten feet of floor. The octopus has been unlatching the top of her aquarium, climbing down to the floor, squigging the ten feet to the other tank, then up and in, stealing a fish, and then going back to her own tank….

By: Johnny Cat

Johnny Cat — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 02:19:09 +0000

Well, we just have to get these two together. Oh yeah.

By: Marilyn Terrell

Marilyn Terrell — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 02:05:56 +0000

@JohnnyCat” Oh, I love Otto’s tricks! But this is a female in Santa Monica. I read that the keepers have now rigged her tank with clamps and tape to keep her from getting out. But here’s a video of an octopus squeezing its entire body through a one=inch hole: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/12/061212-octopus-video.h tml

By: Johnny Cat

Johnny Cat — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 00:35:07 +0000

Wait, that's not Otto, is it? Time to confine him to the weights section of the prison, where he can workout his frustrations.

By: GailW

GailW — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 22:07:58 +0000

Well, if they can solve a Rubik’s cube is follows that they can open a simple valve.

By: The El Bee En

The El Bee En — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 21:48:12 +0000

“…and we have a special this evening on fricasse of octopi, saute in goats milk butter and served on a bed of porcini mushrooms…”

By: zav

zav — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:50:25 +0000

She damaged the “ecologically designed floors.” Using Bush Presidency thinking, this must mean that she is “anti environment.” It is obvious that we must invade Octopia to preserve our freedoms.